Abstract :
Psychosis is a serious mental disorder characterized by impaired thinking and emotions which indicate that
the person experiencing them has lost contact with reality and affects about 1% of the population. It is
characterized by a myriad of signs and symptoms which include distortion of thinking and perception,
cognitive impairments, motor abnormalities, volition and apathy, difficulties in communication and restricted
affective expression. Various allopathic medicines are available in markets which are chlorpromazine,
fluphenazin, triflupromazine, haloperidol, trifluperidol, penfluridol, flupenthixol, clozapine, resperidone. But
prolonged exposure to antipsychotic medication has been associated with side effects including extrapyramidal
symptoms (EPS) and adverse events, such as tardive dyskinesia, an irreversible motor disorder, diabetes or
metabolic problems, weight gain/ obesity, heart problems, strokes, Parkinson’s disease, lack of efficacy,
cognitive decline or impairment, brain shrinkage, seizures or convulsions, lowered bone mineral density,
violence and homicidal ideation, psychosis and delusional thinking, tumours and brain defects which leads to
increases mortality. Therefore demand for herbal formulation is increasing. This article enlightens about the
various antipsychotic Indian Herbal Formulations that can be used to abolish the drug induced side effects and
improve the psychotic symptoms clinically.
Keyword :
Extrapyramidal, Psychosis, Negative dimension